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Written by WILLIAM McCALL, Associated Press
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- For years, the sea lions lounging at the Bonneville Dam have had easy pickings from salmon waiting to go up fish ladders to upriver spawning grounds.
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard has joined other Republican members of Congress in pushing for more domestic energy production by removing barriers to oil shale leasing in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
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Written by The Australian
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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A BRITISH mining company has caused uproar with plans to extract uranium from the Grand Canyon - prompting one official to ask how Britons would react "if an American company went to drill at Stonehenge".
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Written by ROBIN BRAVENDER, E&E Daily
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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The House Water and Power Subcommittee will hear testimony Thursday on a bill tackling a dangerous blockage in Colorado's Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel.
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Written by ERIC BONTRAGER, E&E Daily
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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Four dozen public lands, national forests, water and historical bills are slated for markup in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this Wednesday, along with votes on nominees for two senior-level positions in the Energy and Interior departments.
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Written by ERIC BONTRAGER, E&E Daily
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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The Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee will hold a field hearing in Colorado today to discuss the mountain pine beetle infestation that has laid waste to millions of acres of trees across the West and how federal resources are being devoted to fight the epidemic.
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Written by APRIL REESE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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SANTA FE, N.M. -- On a triangular spit of land abutting the parking
lot of Ortiz Middle School, a prairie dog scouts for predators from the
rim of its burrow next to the school's sign, oblivious to the passing
traffic on busy Jaguar Drive.
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Written by ERYN GABLE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest is moving forward with an
environmental analysis of the effects of leasing 44,700 acres in the
Wyoming Range, despite concerns that an energy company has had too much
influence on the process.
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Written by PATRICK REIS, Land Letter
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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Environmental groups sued the Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday for
removing endangered species protection from northern gray wolves, a
decision they say was based on unsound science and leaves wolves at the
mercy of biased and inadequate state management plans.
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Written by JERRY REYNOLDS, Indian Country Today
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
When a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1908 gave rise to the ''Winters Doctrine'' of reserved tribal water rights, only the U.S. government stood between tribes and a settler-state thirst for water that threatened many reservations with drought.
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Written by ALLISON WINTER, E&E Daily
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
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House and Senate negotiators made cuts to crop subsidies and conservation spending in their framework for the farm bill yesterday, in response to harsh criticism of the bill from the White House.
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Written by FRANCISCO THARP, High Country News
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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In northwestern Colorado’s Piceance Basin, the sage and juniper landscape is home to flocks of the dwindling greater sage grouse and one of the country’s largest migratory mule deer herds. It also happens to hold one of the nation’s largest natural gas reserves. Now, Colorado Division of Wildlife researchers are beginning a $1.3 million-per-year study on how gas companies can minimize their impacts on the basin’s wildlife.
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Written by DON RYAN, AP
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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NORTH BONNEVILLE, Wash. - One by one, curious California sea lions checked out the open cage left invitingly on a platform in the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam and flopped inside to chill out on the nice flat surface.Big mistake.The door clanged shut and state agents concluded their first day of trapping the salmon-hungry sea mammals. The sea lions weren't having much fun behind bars last Thursday, but it beat the bullet between the eyes some came within a whisker of getting under a federal removal authorization.
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Written by ALLISON WINTER, Greenwire
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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President Bush will veto the farm bill unless lawmakers can resolve several issues to the administration's satisfaction, Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said today. |
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Written by MATTHEW FRANK, New West
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
U.S. Department of
Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey said he negotiated the best deal possible
with Plum Creek Timber Co. on U.S. Forest Service road easements, but the county
officials in Montana with whom Rey met with on Montana said they'd prefer to
look at the paperwork and determine that for themselves.
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Written by SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, AP
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
ALONG THE SANTA FE RIVER, N.M. - Rosemary Lowe scoops up a shovel of dirt and dumps it into a hole around the base of a slender cottonwood tree. One down, thousands more to go. Lowe and dozens of volunteers spent a recent day planting native trees along a half-mile stretch of the Santa Fe River that has been reduced to a dry, sandy wash.
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Written by KIM TOULOUSE, AP
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
RENO, Nev. - The fate of basic industries across the Intermountain West — grazing, mining, energy — soon could be at least partially tied to that of a bird about the size of a chicken.
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Written by PATRICK REIS, Land Letter
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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Suzanne Asha Stone was a college intern at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1995 when wolf-reintroduction coordinator Peter Fritts took her into the woods of Idaho. Under his tutelage, Stone had been learning to count wolves by imitating their howl. She tilted back and let out her howl into the northern sky.
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Written by APRIL REESE, Land Letter
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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After a decade-old administrative battle to revoke the license for four new uranium mines proposed for Navajo Nation lands, tribal and environmental groups are taking their fight to federal court.
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Written by ERYN GABLE, Land Letter
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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Environmental groups are trying a new tactic in their efforts to
protect public lands in the West from energy development: In a series
of protests in recent weeks, environmentalists have accused the Bureau
of Land Management of failing to adequately analyze the greenhouse gas
emissions related to increased oil and gas drilling.
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